Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird: "Freedom is a Verb" Tour - Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center

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The live show features projected translations and images by legendary NY underground artist Eric Drooker, whose work is woven into the album’s design, as well as material from the band’s new videos.

New anthems like “Freedom Is A Verb” and Josh Waletzky’s “99%” speak to the political moment as much as they address eternal struggles of class and liberation. Ballads like “Children In The Woods” and “Sheyres Hora” explore the depths of trauma and Traum. And the dark rock landscape of “No One Survives” references the brave hopelessness of late David Bowie. In the title track “The Bucher’s Sher” Kahn manages to make an upbeat Klezmer epic out of economic concepts of commodity fetishism and bourgeois morality. With songs like “Shtil di Nakht Iz Oysgeshterent” and “Arbeter Froyen”, old Yiddish ballads of resistance and revolt are made radical and relevant through poetic new translations.

NEW: Local klezmer band, Hadgaba, will be opening for Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird.

Hadgaba is a Colorado party band like no other. Playing in strange keys over foreign rhythms, their ensemble showcases musical traditions from across the Jewish world and beyond. Join Hadgaba as they transport you to a dance party on the Silk Road after the bazaars are closed.